The Chumysh () is a river in Russia, a right branch of the
Ob River.
It enters the Ob downriver from
Barnaul
Barnaul ( rus, Барнау́л, p=bərnɐˈul) is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain. As of the 2021 Census, its population wa ...
. The Chumysh begins at the confluence of the Kara-Chumysh and the Tom-Chumysh rivers in
Kemerovo Oblast. The Chumysh is long, and it drains a
basin of .
About 68 percent of its right-side basin is known as the
Salair Ridge
Salair Ridge (pronounced ''sah-lah-EER''; russian: Салаирский кряж) is an eroded plateau-type highland in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation o ...
() and the Pre-Salair plains.
Main tributaries
Left
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Kara-Chumysh (), length
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Sary-Chumysh (), length
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Kashkaragaikha (), length
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Taraba (), length
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Yama (), length
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Angurep (), length
Right
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Tom-Chumysh (), length
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Uksunay (), length
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Alambay (), length
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Sungay (), length
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Talmenka (), length
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Kamenka (), length
References
Rivers of Kemerovo Oblast
Rivers of Altai Krai
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